Things started out rough for Attorney General Michael Mukasey.
First he only managed confirmation by the skin of his teeth, because he refused to brand waterboarding as torture. Then he ticked everybody off when the Justice Department asked Congress to shut down their investigations of the CIA torture tapes’ destruction until the DoJ finished up. And then there’s the KBR rape case.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=179005